Andrew Dalby*

Biography:

Andrew Dalby is a man of great learning and many talents. He writes mainly on classical history, food history, linguistics and is also an accom­plished translator.

He collab­orated with Sally Grainger on THE CLASSICAL COOKBOOK (1996, new edition 2012), which explores the history of ancient Greek and Roman food and cookery and includes recipes adapted for the modern kitchen. For SIREN FEASTS (1996), a history of food and gastronomy in Greece, he won a Runciman Award. His other public­ations include EMPIRE OF PLEASURES (2000), covering food and other luxuries in Roman writings; DANGEROUS TASTES (2000), on the origins of the spice trade; light-hearted biographies of Bacchus and Venus (2003 and 2005); REDISCOVERING HOMER: INSIDE THE ORIGINS OF THE EPIC (2006).

Andrew’s books on language and linguistics are DICTIONARY OF LANGUAGES (1998) and LANGUAGE IN DANGER (2002).

His recent works include: CHEESE: A GLOBAL HISTORY (Reaktion, 2009), THE WORLD AND WIKIPEDIA: HOW WE ARE EDITING REALITY (Siduri Books, 2009), ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS: GREECE (Makers of the Modern World Series, Haus Publishing, 2010). Andrew has also translated the GEOPONIKA, a tenth century collection of Byzantine agricultural lore, and an Anglo-Norman treatise by thirteenth century writer Walter of Bibbesworth for Prospect Books (2011 and 2012 respectively).

He is currently working on more historical cookbooks.

Andrew studied classics and linguistics at Cambridge and worked in the foreign and Oriental collections at Cambridge University Library.

He now lives on a small­holding in France, where he writes, grows fruit, and makes cider.

From Haus Publishing’s ‘Makers of the Modern World’ series. Andrew Dalby analyses the link between South-East Asia and the West in 1919–20, focusing on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, to which Prince Charoon of Siam was a national delegate.

More Books By This Author:

From Haus Publishing’s ‘Makers of the Modern World’ series.
Andrew Dalby profiles the Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), one of the stars of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, who impressed many of the delegates with his charm and oratorical style.

The definitive reference to more than 400 languages.
Approx­imately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by an estimated two thousand people?

In SIREN FEASTS, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food.
Over the millennia, Greek food diver­sified and absorbed neigh­bouring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character.

This work of Cato the Elder is essential to our under­standing of classical Roman domestic economy, as well as being the first extended Latin prose work to have survived to this day. This is a new trans­lation and detailed edition composed with a mind to the culinary historian by Andrew Dalby.